Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1874, Page 8

N THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY: NOVEMBER 8, 1874—SIXTEEN PAGES. ris of & 7081 T ent delay and mistakes, be suro and give Post- ‘address in fall, ncluding State and County. °§f;m.m. may be mads either by draft, cxprens, Post- Office arder, or {n registered letters, at our risk. TERMB TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Daily, delivered, Suaday excented, 25 cents perweek. Daily, delivered, Sunday inclnded, 30 cents per weok. ddrees THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Cerper Maditon and Dearbora-ats., Chicago, TIL TO-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. Madison strest. between ngement of Wybert Reeve. MVICKER'S THEATR Pearborn and State. “The Womaa in WEite." DEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, between hn:l:ixl:laflll!wm‘ ‘Engagement of Mis Ella W HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Rsfidolph street, between Clark ana taSalle. ** Money. 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There is a great running together of Repub- sicen politicisos at Washington to tell each other what they must do to make the Democrats Kill themselves before they get into office, and of Democratic politicians to inquire what they mustdo in arder nat to be killed. One scheme of the Republicans is to provide for the asgembling of the new Congress on the 4th of March next, g0 that the Democrats may have ample time to begin to Lill themselves. Itisthought that it they have nine months to be born in they may conclude to live ; but if they are forced to as- semble in March, mstead of December, they will pever be born at all. The possibility that the new Congress may take alarm at the sight of their grave-clothes and forthwith adjourn till December does not secm to have entered into {he calcnlations of the Republican undertakers. This brilliant suggestion of means to destroy the Democracy is supplemented by another which looks to the offering of a resolution this vinter pledging the next Congress 1o pass all needful appropristions to sustain the public credit and carry on the Government. It is, of course, assumed by the wiseacres that the first thing a Democratic Congress will at- tempt will be repudiation of tho National debt, payment of the Rebel debt, and stopping of the wheels of Government for want of appropria- tions. To get them on the record as soon as posaiblo is held to be s grand political maneuvre. But if the traitors who were elected last Tuesdsy should vote jfor the sapient mand the largest and heartiest share of public patronage, and result in & most substantial and bandsom gift to the excellent Hospital which is the beneficiary on this occasion. THE FRENCH ARTISTS’ FUND. Immediately after the great fire of 1871, Meis- srtists that each should contribute a picture, the proceeds from the saleof which should be used for the relief of the ** Chicago sufferers.”” Some of the pictures bad to be puinted, and by the time they were collected ard exhibited in Paris some monthe had elapsed. They were then shipped to New York and again exhibited, and it was not till the middle of June, 1872, that they wore all sold, realizing some $30,000. The New York Comnmittee baving the matter in charge are the Hon. E. D. Morgan, J. H. Sherwood, Robert L. Cutting, Wm. B. Dinsmore, Theron B. Butler, F. G. Church, H. C. Gibeon, D. Huntington, J. Taylor Johnstou, M. Knoelder, R. L. Stuart, A. 'f, Stewart, Wm. H. Vaoderbilt, Robert Hoe, A. Healy, Nathan Mathews, Thos. A. Scott, W.T. Walters, and Henry Ward Beecher. ‘When the pictures were sold Gov. Morgan ad- vised Mayor Medill that the money was ready for transmission “ for the relief of the Chicago rosolution proposed, what then? Would not o record be msde up the wrong Way in thet case? Will it not be harder to convince the people in 1876 that the Democracy intend to re. ‘pudiate the National debt and pay the Rebel debt if they vote for the embarrassing resolution than if they are not required to vote upon it at all? But—and here comes the crucial test—tho Democracy are divided on the currency question. The Easstern Democrats are for specie-psyments,—the Western ones for shinplastars. They will surely * disintegrate” on that question. In what way the Republicans will bave the sdvantage of them in that regard is mot spparent. The strife in Congress snd between Congress and the President is not so remote in point of time that wo can picture the Democrats 2s having an exclusive enjoyment of the internecine war which the currency question breeds. Nor will the next Congress be Leld responsiblo for a solution of the currency ques- tion while the Executivo branch of the Govern- ment is in the hands of the Republicans. It will become apperent in due time to the Republicsn leaders that the Democracy are not to bo overthrown or dispersed by contrivances. Small traps and pitfalls may spewer the pur- poses of comedy, if the enemy gets caught in them, bat they will never carry the next Presi- dency. The Republicans srs still respon- sible for the Government. They bold the Executive and Jundicial branches ex- clusively, and one-half of the Legislative. They must show capacity for something other than stratagom if they expect to recover the ground they have lost. Nor will it be safe to rely on the stupidity of thenext Congross to help them out. The Republicans are the abler politicians of the two, bat they must expect that there will be de- sertions from tneir side to the apparently win- ning party. Among the deserters will be captains, and engineers, and drill-sergeants. The enemy " will not suffer for want of instruction in the manual of arms. They slready have leaders who Imow what the party lacks, and who will see that it is supplied. The Republican leaders must do mome positive good for the country while they have the power,—that is, during the coming session of Congress,—else all their cunning de- vices to tripup the next Congress will prove fruit- loss, and serve only to brighten the contempt heaped upon them by the people (by their own party no less than by their opponents) in the racent election. The reports of the varions Committees of the forthcoming Hahnemaon Hospital Fair, which are printed elsewhere, show that the labors of Lhe ladies engaged in its organization and equip- moent have already been crowned with success, 20d that they will prasent for the patronage of the people of this city a show, if so we may call it, which wiil combins almost every conceivable element of entertsinment one csn wish. The bungry man, tho thirsty man, the amusement- seeker, the art-connvisseur, the mausic-lover, the curiosity-manisc, tho book-hunter, the prac- h'fnl man, the impractical man, doctors, ministers, and lawyers, men, Women, chil- dren, and babes, will all find & special depart- ment for themselves, foll of interest. Thisis not aFairin the ordinary acceptation of the term, ~—thatis, collection of doll-babies, tidies, pin- cushions, avd odds and ends of honeehold use,— but & huge bazasr in which every buman want is . interded to be met, The Fair will commence an the 16th inst., and will coutinue wmnbl further L) sufferers.” Mayor Medill wrote back that every- body then in Chickgo who was willing to work bsd employment. Properly speaking, there were no * sufferers™ in Chicago. The general fund was smple for all purposes. But Msyor Medill urged the New York Committee to hand over the money to the Chicago Acadomy of De- sign, or to Trustees, who should use the interest to be derived from the fund in connection with the Academy in such manner as would best pro- ‘mote the interests of Art in Chicago. For eome reason the matter was not acted upoo, and the money still remains comparatively idle in one of the New York aavings banks. Since the picturea were sold in 1872 aere has been no object to which the proceeds of this French artists’ fund could be 8o properly applied 38 to the encouragement and support of Artin this city, and the Academy of Design is the most proper medium through which it shoald be dis- pensed. It is simple truth to say that Art is poor and “ suffering,” and many of our artists are atill ¢ sufferers,” While they would scorn now to be mads the beneficiaries of this fund, the moral support of ita use by the "Acad- emy would be of great help to them. As the French artists, it is understood, are not only willing, but desirous, that the fund shail be used as above 1ndicated, all ojection to the Acsdemy having the se of it would seem to be removed. In order, if possible, to accomplish this, the Academy, two weeks ago, commis- stoned its Secretary, Mr. Charles Peck, and Gov. Bross, to proceed to New York and confer di- rectly with the Committee. Gov. Morgan was 8o deeply engrossed in political affairs that he declined to call the Committes together till after election. Both he and all the members of the Committee that were in town received the Chi- cago gentlemen most Lindly. and nearly all of them expressed themselves warmly in favor of st once sending the funds te Chicago, to be used for the benefit of Art. Church and Huntington, the artists, wore very decidedly in favorof it, &8s were also Bierstadt, Beard, and other artists. Mr. Cutting, Mr. R. L. Btuart, and others, also of the Committee, wera in favor of coming to- getber at once and disposing of the money ; but, of course, nothiog could be done till Gov. Mor- gan hod time to attend to it. It is, therefore, probable that ‘within & few days, or weeks at most, the New York Committes will tranefer the care and use of the $£30,000 in their Lands to the Chicago Academy of Design,—by far the best thing that can be done with the money. It can scarcely fail to greatly promote the interests of Axt in this city sud the Northwest. CHRISTIANS UNATTACKED. The preeent position of Prof. Swing with ref- erence to what, in ecclesiastical vernacular, is called ** The Church,” is suggestive of & topic which is destined to engage public atteation far mora in the fature than it has done in the past, Prof. Swing has, by his own choice and act, de- tached himself completely frowm all ecclesiastical organizations, great and small, ancient and re- cent, orthodox and heretical, and now stands where many thousands, porhaps we should eay millions, of Christians havo stood ever since the founder of Christiamty rebuked Hia disciples for confounding their followers with His. And now that we have gome ‘back to the timo when the “company of the Disciples” began to crystallize into an organization, it is in- structive to observe how little their Master had to do with their organizing projects. - And, judging from the indifference that He showed for the mere outward shape and form of His movement, wo may imagine His concern when he saw this exclusive bigotry of His Disciples, and foresaw what an embarraesment it wounld finally become to"His cause. Beginning in His presence and surviving Bis rebuke, the conflict between His organized and unattached followers bas been going on from that hour to the present. Who knows but 'that He was a frequept visitr to tho ‘house of s favorite Diaciple of the disconnected party, while ko took special pains to avoid the residence of theleadersof the organized party, who were for- ever boring him with their ecclesiastical self- seeking. Doubtless He was as silent upon the matter of His favorite Disciples joining the new organization (if thero was any organization) as He was prompt and pronounced upon the 4 greatest ” question which agitated the councils of his eccloaisstically-minded followers. In- doed, thera is the strongest reason for bolioving that neither Lazarus, Mary, or Martha, were “ members. of the Church,” and cortain it is that the one thing lacking in the inguirer who came to Jesus was not membership in an organization, but partnership in o spirit, with- out which the organization was and is s hollow aham, 8o it has gooe on from that day to this. The _ecclesiastical party have not only kept “the Great Babylon which they have builded” in s perpetual broil, but have torn it from time to time into warring factions, and bave contuually added to the number of those who would rather take their chances for the approbation of the head of the Church by staying out of it than by going mtoit. The Christisns unattached to any denomination and uncommitted to any of the sides of soy of the controversies;that rend the do- nomiuations, have graduslly muitiplied until they have becoms an innumerable multitude. They constitute what is called *the congrega- tion,” in distinction from ‘*‘the Church.” But for them it is doubiful whethsr thers s a preacher im Christsndom who could collect either an audience or s salsry. Some of them aro Trustees of the cuurch property, and have &’ voico and voteinits disposition and control. Some are called *‘outside Deacons”—a humorous recognition of their services to the Church.. In gonier, of Paris, proposed to his brother French’ some denominations they vote in the g and dismissing of the pastor, espegially where the vastor's salary is large. And, as the arrogance of the ins has declined in geometrical ratio to the growth in wealth of the outs, there has been & growing sepirit of Christian fellowship on the part of the former towards the latter. The * outside Deacon " 18 not 8o pestered as he used to be with insinuations of his * uncovenant- ed " attitude, and the exemplary Trustee is not #0 frequently twitted with being “not far from the Kingdom, "while the number of the * Gospal- bardened ™ among the highly-respectablo pew- owners has greatly diminished, Except in the more unenlightened districts, where the revival- ist feels it necessary to work upon. the idea that to be out of the Church is to be “ without hope and without God in the world,” there has come to be & geceral scquiescence in the spiritual secunity of outside Clrigtians. The elder son, who stays at home and goes to church, who Lkeeps & carrisge and pays for his pew, is included in the pulpit benedic- tion. Itisthe prodigal son, who is wasting his substanco in riotous speculations, and is some- what careless in hus use of Ianguage, on whom tho vigilant preacher casts a longing eye. And therein the vibilant preacher is right. He will do a service approved of Heaven, and beneflcial to earth, by gathering in the bad snd vile, but he will imperil his usefulness, to say notbing of Lis salary, if he confounds the ninety-and-nine Chrigtians unpattached with the one civilized heathen who should be coerced if he caonot be coaxed into Christian decency. But all this our preachers are beginning to see and concede, and they act accordingly. So that ths rights and privileges of nnattached Christians bave become pretty well established ; and, if they use their op~ portunity wisely, they will exercise a powerful and beneficent influence upon the future of Christianity. REFORM IN LITERATURE. A curious instance of the influence of s cer- tain class of literature upon the rising geners- tion is shown by an event which happened in New York recently. Two boya were bronght be- fore the Toombs Police Court for having left their homes in Boston, haviog previonsly ab- stracted about §300 of their parents’ money. 1t seems that these precocious young gentlemen had been reading the thrilling adventures of Jack Harkaway among the Indians, recently pub- lished in one of Frank Leslie's numerous periodi- cals devoted to cheap sansational literature, and became inspired with enthusinsm to make a jour~ ney to the wild frontier and emulato that mythical hero in his slaughter of buffalo and scalping of Indiane. They had proceeded aa far 28 Now York, with their fathers in bot pursmt, when the law stepped in and broke up their west- ern crusade by returning the youthful and dis- gusted Don Quixotes to their parents, who took them back-to Boston and have undoubtedly taken their nonsense out of them by means familiar to Boston boys in the habit of disobeying their parents. ) The affair secms puerile, if not humorous, oo the surface, but it Lbas a moral, very deep &nd far-reaching, which deserves serions attontion. As Reform is the motto of the day in politics, in religion, and society, why should not tae lovers of literature demand reform in this also? The in- flnence of the atrociously illustrated newspapers Iike the police gazottes, familiarizing the rising generation with erimoa of every description, should not be too lightly cetimated. They are doivg moro than any other agen- cy to render the youthful mind cal- lous to scenes of crime and brutality. The society for the suppression of vice is doing all in its power to destroy obscene literature. There is still another class which makes crime enticing by throwing = gloss of romance about it. The first defense agaiuost its ibsidious influence can be and ought. 10 be made in the home circle, and the efforis in this direction onght to be seconded by the edueators and moral teachers of youth. THE CREED OF JOHN STUART MILL. Enough extracts from Mill's posthumous book on religion bave been printed to justify a btate- ment of the dead philosopher's creed. The book consists of throe eesays,—on Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. r, Mill considered Natare failure, Without going to the extremes of Schoponhauer's pessimistic philosophy, and regarding this earth as the worst possible world that could be crested, ho yot axpresses his indignant con- tempt for *‘so clumeily made and cavricionsly goverved s creation as this planet and its in- habitants.” Horegards it as governed by two powers, good sud evil, which conginually strug- glo with and cannot conquer each other. Read- ers of his autobiography will remember that his fatber impressed this Manichmsn view upon him. He says that the only *““admissible moral theory” of creation is,” that “the principle of good cannot atonce and altogether subdue the powers of ‘evil, either physical or moral; could not place mankind in a world free from the ne- cesgity of an incessant struggle with the malefi- cent powers or make them alwaya victorious in that struggle; but conld and did make them capable of carryiog on the iight with vigor and with progressively incressing success.” Hero we catch a glimpse of his God, under the guiso of this vague *‘principle of good,” but the phantom vanishes in the third essay—that on Theism. { Inthis Mr. Mill comes to the conclusion that thereis **evidence insufficient for proof, but amonnting only to one of the lower degrees of probability,” for the existence of any God what- ever. Such a Being may exist and maynot. The philosopher does not know and cannot find out. The immortality of the soul is equally doubt- ful. “There is no assurance ‘whatsver of & [ lifo after death on grounds of nat- ural yeligion” He writes of Christ as s “ pre-eminent genius,” * probably tho great- estmoral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed,” etc. Morever, ‘. it remains a possibility that Christ actually was what ho supposed himselt to be, not God,—for he never mede the smallest pretension to that character, and would probably have thought such s pre- tension as blasphemous as it seemed to the men ‘who condemned him,—bnt & man charged with & special, express, and unique commission from God to lead mavkind to truth and virtue.” Hore, sgnin, we find Mr. Mill in the position of one who denies nothing, admits nothing, knows nothing, Perhaps this phrase oxpresses his creed as socurately ag it can be formulated. ‘Wheo this ides has been grasped, it will same- what astonish the reader to find, in the essay on. tho Ttiliiy of Religion, and in the concluding portions of the one on Theism, the high esti- mito which Mr. Mill puts upon religious belief.. He thinks that moral truths mo longer need the sanction of religion to be accep.ted and acted upon, but he believes that the feelings should be exalted and the mind inspired by what thesuthor of ““Ecce Deus” calls the “ passion of humanity,” Love of the werld chould take the place of love of a God. It should be the basis of religion. 8o hesays in the essay written between 1850 and 1858. Inthe third, which dates from 1868-1870, he gives the emotions freer play, and consequently gives some strange advice, Oultivate the reason, he eays, judge the question calmly, but keep on hoping that your reason is wrong, and that there is immortality, happiness heresfter, and o on. There can be small doubt that the deathof his wife and his ardent longing to rejoin bher after death controlled his pen when he wrote thuse words. It is not tho logical, but the emotional, Mill who ssys: ‘“Let reason hold the scales eveuly, snd meaowhile let hope push up one side.” The mental operation he proposes is, strictly speaking, impossible. Our resume shows that the three essays contain much that is ambiguons sod uncertain. Per- haps the best characterization of Mr. Mill's creed to be called trom the whole book is that which wae have slready given. Ho seems, in regard to tho future, to deny nothing, sdmit nothiog, know nothing. He goes beyond Horbert Spen- cer. Thelatter belioves in an unknowable God, —an existence without qualities. BMill neither believes nor aisbelieves 1n the Existence. EGOTISM RUN MAD, Mr. Ruskin has once more broken out in & long and lond lsmentation or series of lamenta- tions, which display him ss the egotist par emi- nence of the century. Mr. Ruskin has indulged in lamentations before, but none of them have been g0 purely personal as his recens wailings. The catalogue of them is too smusing to be lefc unnoticed. Their arrogance is defeated by their puerility, and any bope that Mr. Buskin may be relievad from his world of troubles is lost in the fact that the suthors of those troubles will only laugh at their victim, and that the world at large will regard Mr. Rus- kin as it would a child wailing over its broken doll. Firat, Mr. Ruskin complains of his own name, because, s he says, it is only short for **Rough Skin,” in the sense of ‘' Pig Skin,” and he cannot find historical mention of auy other form of the name, except as that of the lesding devil of four (Red Skin and Blue Bkio, and he forgets the names of the other two), who per- formed in one of the Miracle-plays. Second, he asserts that he has loat the pleasure of three-sev- enths of hislife owing to Sunday. Hereaches this exact fraction by the fact that the inevitability of the coming of Sanday always cast & lurid ahade over Friday and Saturday. Third, he has fifteen thousand pounds in bank stocks, for which he gots 7 per cent, but 1t csuses him great un- easineas, as ho haa & suspicion that this is usury. It would seem, however, s very easy matter for him to divest himself of this suspicion and re- lieve his uneasiness, and there are plonty of money-borrowers who could give him an infal- lible remedy-for this trouble. Fourth, he com- plaina that the Americans will not sell him a black girl, and mentions his wish to buy & white one with a title,—an easy purchase, if he bas monsy enough. Fifth, he says he dares not give s penny to a beggar unless he is sure no clérgyman is in sight, from which we presame he moans to intimate that the clergyman would immediately rob him or importuno him for alms, eiug the biggest beggar of the two. Sixth, he ia not able to correct bis proof-sheets at all with- in heariog of a steam-whistle or within sight of 2 rainbow. Soventh, he complains he cannotresd sensational novels on strikes. Eighth, gasmakes his head ache, 28 it does the hezds of millions of other people. Ninth, he is greatly exercised because & London firm has sent bim circulars about silke, which they want tosell at sn alarm- ing sacrifice. Tonth, be growls becauss penny cookery-books come to him by post, and abovo all because anold friend asks him to read a text every morning in what he calls the Bausage Book. Quere: The Bible? Eleventh, he de- clares himself to bs misunderstood, to be ill- tompered, to havo fow fricods remainivg, and that the British publicis of a loquacious and speculative disposition as compared with the in- tensely practical and matter-of-fact character of bhis own mind. Al this seems so drezdfal to Mr. Ruskin that be parades it beforo the world in his Fors Clav- igera, a8 if he were the only man in the world sufferiug from sonoyances and grisvances. The misiake which he makes is in supposing himself singular in this respect. There 18 probably not & man or woman liviog who is not afflicted with as many petty torments and eccentric ails as Mr. Ruskin, bat it is not con- sidered either necessary or becoming to gabble or growl sbout them. Most human beings have too many great sorrows and tronbles to occupy their attention without giving heed to the small ones. Mr. Ruskin seems to have no great ones, and so clamors like a huckster over the lit- tle ones, and, in so doing, only proclaims himaelf aathe most offonsive and ill-tempered of living egotista. The fact that he proclaims Lis annoyances in very elegant English does not place them or him in any better light. It does not make a mule any the less & mule to trim him with ribbons, or a monkey any theless s monkey todress him in a gilt cap and scarles coat. MARRIAGE ARD DIVORCE. The Pastoral Letter addressed by the Bishops of tho Protestant Episcopal Church to the clergy aud laity reviews in elegant diction and forcible logic many subjocta affecting the public and do- mestio relations of Christians; and upon tho great abuse and scandal of reckless divorces, and the recognition of divorced persons forming new marriage relations, aseerts poculiarly strong doc- trine, That part of the letter saye : It {s & part of the Hbarty wherewith Christ has made us fres to lift up all our domestic Iife into the pure at- ‘mosphere of spiritual thonght and fecling, Marrisge 18 no longer a union of convenience, or & matter of civil contract, It is tho one blessed helrloom trans- mited from the days of innocence; it is the type and emblem of that union which s between Christ and tha Church. The freedom of the chasta, pure, Christian housa £tands pre-eminent Among the earthly blessings beatowed on us in Christ. How i& it, then, that some among you hae presum- ed o put away & wife except for the cause of fornica- tion? We are distressed to know that some, under protext of & civil divorce, have, without adequats cause, dismissed an uncongenisl wife or husband, snd, after marrying another, have profaned the Holy Bacrament by coming to it with s body thus defiled. Ba ye well assured, brethren beloved, that whatever Hoenso may be tolerated by soclety and by civil courts, if ‘any persons be joined together otherwise than as God's Word doth allow, their marrisge is not lawful. Bo admonishe] that if any clesve not to his wife, but unlawfully marries another, and then comes to the table of the Lord, although he doth carnally and visi- bly presa with his teeth (as St Angustine saith) the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, yet in no wise is he parfaker of Christ, but rather, to his own condemnation, doth est and drink the aign ar sscrs- ment of 50 great a thing. This is to be taken a8 a direct denial of the legality, in.a moral and religious sense, of all arvorces, except for adultery, and of all mar- riages of persons thus unlawfully divorced. It is & strict assertion of the doctrine of the Church that there can be no putting away a ‘wife for any but the one’ cause. It is a dental that marrisge is 0o more than a matter of civil contract, All civil divorces, except for adultery, aze hald to be mare pretexts for dismissing an such uncongenial wife or husbsnd, and persons marrying sgain do profane the Holy Sacrament by coming toit with defiled bodies. The Bishops refuse to recognize the authority of the civil Iaw 23 & justification of divorce, or as s release from the requirements of the Church, which holds that there can be no divorce save for the one cause. . This emphatic denunciation of the civil law of divorco places the Episcopal Church upon sub- stantially the same ground as that occupied by the Roman Catholic Church. These two numer- ous bodies of Christians are therefore united in opposing with moral force the policy of the civil 1aw of nearly all thé States of the Union. Inthe light of this Pastoral Letter, the civil law has made & wide departure from the Church, Mar- risge as understood by the Church and the mar- risge understood by the civil law are widely dis- tinct. The Church holds that marmiage is not “s union of convenience, or s matter of civil con- tract ;" it holds that it is & relation that cannot be dissolved by human'agency otherwise than &8 God's Word allows. The law, on the con- trary, regards marrisge s s civil contract, and nothing more; to be entered into or dissolved with about the same facility that s farm-hand msy be hired aod dismissed. The =ivil law treats tho religious or spiritual character of the marriage relation as unneces- eary, and ignoresit sltogether. It refusesto recognizo the contract as having any more en- during character than any other cootract, and, upon the complaint of either party, offers de- liverance upen any one of half & score of res- sons. Agsinst this lsxity of the civil law the Episcopal Church protests, and it warns those who foliow the &ivil law into unhallowed rela- tions thst, when they approsch the communion table, they profane the sacrament with their de- {. filed bodies, and, instead of partaking of Chriat, merely eat and drink the'semblance, and to their own spiritual condemnation. Other religions bodies have from time to time entered spasmodic protests against the pelicy of the civil law in the matter of divorces; but out- side of the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Episcopal Church thero has been no Buch suthoritative sction taken a8 to make the law of the Church binding upon its members, without reference to the civil law. Itis a plain statement that though the civil Iaw may divorce, and may authorize remarrisge, the Church must regard both proceedings aa unlawfal and a8 profanations of God's ordinances and inatitu- tions, and as disqualifying all persons thus of- fending a8 unworthy of communion in the Church. Though the letter of tho Pastoralcon- taina no such anathema as in the olden times accompanied all ecclesiastical condemnations, it closes the doors of the Episcopal Church to all such persons as effectually as the doors of the Toman Catholic Ckurch are closed to the same classes. MR. SPURGEON'S CIGAR. ‘We may not be good judges of what onght to constitute piety, but we will venture to nssume that one important constitueut element of it is reverenos for the Supreme Being. We presume, indeed, that everybody would naturally suppose that piety and irreverence were incompatible. But wo grieve to observe that a different opinion seems to prevail among even some of the most eminent and enlightened of those who make s profession of religion—to use their own only too accurste phraseclogy. To judge them out of their own mouths, they are evidently of the opinion that they aro not simply ministers set apart to minister to their fellows, but the Prime Ministers of the Almighty, selected by Him to spesk His mind in the most infinitesimal minuti® as well as to proclaim His decrees in all their fullness. The fact of there being so many of these presuming Premiers does not disconcert them, because every one of them solemnly bslieves that he iathe only regu- larly and properly authorized one. So that we suppose every one of them wounld join us in deprecating that impertinent familiarity with the Deity which is the characteristic of all. ‘This was what was the matter the other day, when the Boston preacher and the London preacher made a spectacle of themselves on the cigar question. The quéstion came to be at last the theological status of smoking, not in the next world,—for in that matter Boston and Lon- don were agreed, —but in this world. They shook hands heartily, however theoretically, over the smoke of thoss torments which ascend long enough to suit even the Bynod of Northern Illi- nois ; but they washed their hands before all the people of one another’s sentiments on the habit of smoking cigars, whatever the quality of the cigara. The Boston preacler related his views on emoking, that bad resulted from ope of his interviews with *‘tbe Lord,” to the London preachers’ congregation. He had *desired to become more completely delivered from sin,” and ** asked the Lord " to let him know what he ghould *‘give up” in order to mako the addi- tional attainment. At this point (g0 runs the | report), the silence” of the immense congre- gatlon was * profound,” and expactation leaned forward over the back of every pew in the house. “What do you think,” exclaimed the preachor at this hushed moment,—* What do you think it was the Lord required of me?” A little more’ dallying with the eagerly expectant throng, and out “it” came! Lord required ” his immodiats 2nd uncondition- al emancipation from the shackles of his cigar,— “It* was a cigar!! *The * the best cigar that could be bought.” Bat *‘s0 unequal did he feel to the self-denial that he took his cigar-box beforo the Lord, and cried to Him for help. and the habit Tenounced!™ The congregation heaved s sigh of relief, and sank back with a aign of disappointment (to putit no stronger) into their pews. Nobody proposed they shonid close with singing *My Last Cigar.” Would the song have added anything to theirrevercat pioty of the occasion? Be that sa it may, there was an addition to the irreverent piety of the occa- sion by the London preacher aforesaig, who was nolesa s preacher than the Rev. Charles H. Bpurgeon. He must needs rise and explain then and there that, “Notwithstandiog what his Brother Pentecost had 8aid, he intended to smoke & good cigar to the glory of God before he went to bed that pight!” This may have satisfied the congregation, but it made a breezs outaide of it. The world's people snickersd. The and irrsverent newspapers were Mr. Spurgeon rose, Or rather, explain again, and thia time talked like a can- did, sensible man, instesd of like an irreversnt miniater of the Gospel. 8moking had * relisved his intense pain and weary brain.” It had givon him “refresbing sleep,” and he * falt gratefal to God™ for it. would have fortified himself sgainst the arrows of both the natural man of the nowspapers, and the unoatural man among the reformers of homan habits. Butif ‘he had kept his mouth shut altogether, except when he opensd it to smoke his cigar ‘before going to bed that night,” he would have escaped the charge, from The belp was given, secular shocked. ‘wrote, to If he had eaid that at firss he all parties now engaged in this momentous co troversy, of using the name of his Maker in vain. 8o we are obliged to call both of these rever- end, and, of course, well-meaning, gentlemen to order, snd reprimand them for irreverence. And, in doing this, we beg to sdmonish all the reverend clergy agsinst this mischievous vice which has grown with the growth and strength- ened with the strengthof the modern pulpit. It does not become them to denounce the irreverence of the common herd of stump-orators and other impenitent cattle, such as msy be found in. the vicinity of newspspers (secular newspspers) and Boards of Trade, while theymix so much irreverent phraseology i their devout disquisitions. Even their prayers are lsmentably disfigured by this flippant familiarity with what the Bible aod all other good books hold in awe. It is bad enough in Brother Moody, but, in the regularly-com- missioned and foreordained preacher, it is inox- cusable. It is imposeible to cultivate deference among men, while our ** professors of religion” show so little of it toward God. TALKING. When society becomes a mero matter of danc- ing, it is on its lust logs. The foot kicks out the brain, People who do not care to spend hours in violent exercige in & small, hot room after & bard day's work stsy away. People with cul- tured legs ani undeveloped brains go. The slight pauses botween the dances aro filied up with vapid chatter. There is no talk,—properly 5o called. Bodies, pot minds, meet. To persons incapable of mental effort, grave or gay, this may ba plessure. It is not so to tho majority of people. They ap- pear at parties under & mistaken notion tbat sp- pearance is & social duty. Now dancing is good enough in itself, when taken in moderation. It is when it usurps the place of better things, aod excludes them, that s protest ia needed. ‘When it is the be-all and end-all of society, the man who likes to talk and be talked to] is justi- fied in growling his disapproval. So far,however, has this tendency to subordinate eversthing etsc to the dance been carried in society, that talking is actually balf under the bsn, as something out of date, stupid, slow. Amsnis expected to put on & dress-coat and put off ideas atthe ssme time, “We don't go to partiea to tatk about Daiwin,” cries the average young lady. As she has s vague idea that Darwin is a dangerous in- fidel,who thinks Adam and Eve were monkeys, it is, perhaps, just sa well that she does not dis- cuss him in public. Thers may be, however, one ortwo things on which she is eapabls of con- versing. There are certainly s great number which she might hear talked about with sdvantage. Jf she cannot do the ome, and is unwilling to do the other, let her dance to the measure of her own foolish will, but let her not make every social gathering exclusively s scene of dancing and dullnesa because she is ca. pable of nothing better. The Paris salon in the time of the First Em- pire was s brilliant example of what society might be. It was » gathering of politiciaus, and literary men, and scitntists, snd artists, and wits, snd philosophers, apd brilliant women, . who were themselves all theso thinga. The talk was fres and fine. It touched on every topic. Enjoyment snd instruction were mnever more hasppily combined It i3 rolated of Madame de Stael that, when she was writing oa any topic, she firat put ber own thoughts on it on part of each pageof a blank book, then talked about it with every one she met, and then wrote in the vacant spaces the final draught, in which all she had learned by conversation was ncorparated. Bhe got,mors by talking thsn by thinking. Bhe frankly confessed this, and said that she would walk to the Bay of Naples to sce ono clever man, whileshe would not turn around to soe the Bay itself. From the sort of society in which Madame do Stael found inspiration,—the salon,—we are galloping and waltzing farther awsy esch year. A born hostess might, however, bring us back o some of its best enjoyments by s seres of carefully-planned parties; for the conversstion one occasionally hears from a Littlo knot of con- genial Bpirits proves that talking is nos yet s loat art. S— BPIRIT-MUSBIC. One of thae stock attractions at s so-called spir- itoal seance is music by unseen hands. If the sitters begin to sing, sn accompaniment, more or less correct, is generally thrummed out on the ever-ready violin or guitar. When this hap- pens in tho dark, trickery is almost always posai- ble. Thero are, however, perfectly authen- ticated cases, in which s medium, play- ing upon the pisno, has been accompanied by notes struck on different musioal instruments ‘which either lie upon the piano or are suspend- ed in different parts of the room. This has oo- curred many times in broad daylight. It has hitherto been unexplainable. ‘We are enabled to Iay before our readers do- tails of some unpublished experiments by Prof. Tyndall and other scientific men, which seem to supply s satisfactory solution for this problem on purely patural grounds. Prof. Tyndall placed s wooden rod on the sounding- board of a piano, connecting it with the top of the inatrament, Then, when a violin was placed upon the top, s tune plsyed upon the pisno was accompanied by the violin. The Fox Bisters produced some remarbable re- sults by making a gutar, brought to their seances by sa investigatar, asccom- pany their performances on the pisno. ‘When, however, the ownor of the guitar secretly fastened its rod with a wire, and so interrupted the vibrations trom below, the spirits could not play. Human hands were more successful, In ‘both these experiments, the” accompaniment was defective in that & wholo octave was frequently missed. Now this is procisely the fault of “gpirit"-mado music. In experiment- ing oa instruments which wers hung in the room at points remote from the one played by the investigator, it has been discovered that by reinforcing the vibrations caused by the latter the former can be made to play an accompani- ment. Bo powerful are the vibrations thus crested that s heavy timber suspended from one end can be made fo sway back and forth until it scquires grest momentum by simply striking it with waves of sound. Btill more wonderful results can bo attained. Whether or not every building has ita key-note, and can bs thrown into dangerous vibration by the constant striking of that note, there are instances which seem to bear out the theory. The well-known case of King's College Chapel, st Cambndge, Epg., is one in point. It is said, we belisve on good suthority, that the “Dead March from Baul” cannot be played in it withont danger. The massive walls and the stone roof sway under its inflnence 80 seriously that the performance of the march has been prohibited. When the Hallelnjah Cho- tus is played in the Boston Muaia Hall, the win- 288 accompanies it norously, gy, church-organist knows that there arg apt m“’ some globes in the suditorium which wify o bum a response to & particular tone on the, > Prof. Lovering, of Hartford, ijrnpamm.:;f“ story that a strolling masician fg - fiddled down & bridge in Tevenge for th, of somo trifling favor by the men em, building it. Itis evident that the pot sical vibration is but imperfectly Tndarg, 1t is posaible that honest mediums deceiyg :ed. selves, 25 well as their circles, and that g Dot spirits, produces, in the absence of trickery, all the so-called spirit-music, 3 ] Tefusy] ployed i wer of my, We forgot to mention at the pro, Mr. Caulfield is vindicated. mn':n:;;.fi: o that he was a Copperhead during tas Wy m be was privy to the Camp Louglas oo, . and that hie went o Mexico altar the Rebeigpr was suppressed to get away from this God.tp, saken country. Having baen elocted, wp kyoy that all thess charges were false. He hag basy vindicated. That is the way Grantwes mpg, cated two yexrs ago. What is 8308 for thy R008e is 8ance for the gaoder. ———e— EGYPT AND ICELAND. EGYPT AND ICELAND IN THE YEAR ig, Baxanp Tavros, lome., pp. X i ¥ Famam's Som, 0 PP New Ya; ] The incelligent reader who is interesteq j foreign lands has followed the traveler, ty and again, in his stereotypod route from Alne andria to the Island of Philm, and i8as famy 88 one can bo from the wrilten page, wity ‘:: physical featuros of EZypt, and with tha chy, acter and condition of its inhabliants, conscions of the amount and the extent of 1, knowledge of this country in possession of tyy public, Mr. Taylor has wisely avoided, in theay lesters, such information as may be Eupposed 5 be generally familisr. Twenty-two yoars agoky made the tour of Eeypt, thoroughly inspeciag itachiet objecta of wnterest, and publishing s piy andlucidaccountof his experiences for the beges; of those who must be content to explors distan regions whilo sitting by their own fireside. By, in the universal progress of the sge, slow wj phlegmatic Egypt has moved onward, and her Present position is considerably in advasce of that which she occupied & couple of decsdes gone by. It was to noia the ateps which she hay taken, to gauge the rate of her march forwad, and to judge if her activity really meant im. provement, that Mr. Taylor has made this say ond tour of investigation through her territory. ‘The anawers to his inquiries could not fail to by important, for our interTogator knew just how and what to seek, and, from his previous s quaintance with the subject, waa qualified toaz. rive at ahrowd and just conclasions, Twenty years sgo the populstion of Egyii proper was 5,231,757 The mcresse dur ing the last ten yews has probably beea about 500,000; while Nubis, thiopia, and Soudan add about 2,000,000 Qne- tenth of this population are Copta, aad notless than 150,000 are Franks or of Kuropean birth. ‘The number of visitors in Egypt has immensaiy incressed duriog the last two decades, and the expenses of travel have been greatly augmented. The cost of a comfortable trip up the Nila has more than doubled. The steambqat-journsy of three weeks requires an outlsy, all expenses in- cluded, of 8230 ; while s clean and convenient dahabiyeh, accommodating from three to five persons, cannot be hired for less than €500 per month. A good dragoman will dsmand, for s party of threo or four, from $30 to $40 perdsy for all axpenses ; and, aa the trip to Wadi Halfa occu- pies three months, this method of travel is now limited to the luxurions. Tho charges st the hotels vary from 12 to 16 English shillings par day for board snd lodging. Since Ismail Pashs succeeded his grandfather, Mohammed Ali, as Kn¢dive of Egypt,—elsven yoars 3go,—the Buez Caual bas been built and opened to the commerce of the world; the cities of Ismilis and Port 8aid have grown up with tte rapidity of the mushroom towna of Americs; the Delts has been covered with & net-work of railroads, and & line completed to Upper Egyst; tho repions of SBoudan have becoms #afe and ac- cessible ; and Alexandria and Cairo, already fur- njshed with atatues and theatres, paved, spr kled, and gas-lighted streets, are being rapidy transformed into modern Earopean cities. The ares of cultivated land throughout Egyplus been enlarged ‘from 20 to 30 percont; and ths extension of cauals and the growth of treeshass produced a marked influence oa the rainfall, azd hence upon the climate. In_Curo tht anpual aversge of rainy days wsed to be four or five, whereas it is now twenty-one; and in the Delta, whero it 1sed 0 be eight, it is now forty. This incresss i the rainfall diminishes the temperature in the win- ter, and fires, although Dot yot provided, 1o needed for comfort. The spring of this yea waa not moro forward in Egypt than in Soeth- orn Italy, and it waa April instead of Febroars,— formerly the spring-mouth,—when the tess burst their buds. Tho sasertion of the Mexi- cans, that the Anglo-Sazon raca changes tEe climate wherever it sectlos, holds good in the hiscory of Egypt. In regard to religion, s much greater tol- erance than in former yesrs now provails ia Cairo and along the Nile,—she liberality of the Khedive having mado a ssosible jmpression in abating tho prejudices of Islamiam. The num- berof childzen in the elementary schools bst swelled, during the Khedive's reign, from 5,60 to 90.000, of whom 8,018 are girls 3oy daughters of tho higher classes ae sbis to mpeak and read French, snd aro allowsl to sssociate familisrly with Enropesn ladies. The new residonces of the weslthy sdopt cortain features of the Italian plas, and maoy of them substitute &n iron railing around, the gar- den in place of the old, high.brick wall, s0d the Light Venetian blind in their many ui.n_lawa fo1 the formor curiously-lstticed balconies. young and handsome women of the barem 18 longer shroud themselves in the folds of & thich véil when riding through the streets, but birel) obacure the flash of their bright eyes and th¢ tint of their rosy cheeks behind s cloud of mnh; white gauze. Thess changes in the batius the Egyptian women are considersble in d}fi;’ selves, but are still more important s gure i ces of the greater changes they foretoken. On resching the Orien, the traveler of - day is struck withthe wonderful spread of ¢ English langusge within the last twenty yesr2 French, which was but recently indispenss ble Italy 28 well ss in all the East, is now less available than English. This latter hfl‘”"fl: fast superseding all others, snd will 5000 be o #posch of commerce throughout the world. "Ial practical valuo is slready far greater than that any othor tongue. xmmmiuu doubled its population €2 1854, having st present 225,000 inhnhhlfl”v' 100,000 of whom ars of Enropesn blood Fof cities of its size give greater evidencesof PNW‘?‘ ty. 1tabanking capitalis 125,000,000, —nes” u’- 5 equal to that of New York. Ita suburbsare ing built up with sumptuous mansiondi superb equipages afford the moans of locomd~ tion in its streets. Cairo has expericnced i greater alterations in the sams period It + connected with Alexandria by a railwsy; 1 b3 bridge over the Nile, a carrisge-road to l?";; mids and the Heliopolis, s telograph. & papor, &0 opers, Christian churches, loog Lot of new and broad streats, rows of rectal fi and unpicturesqas buildings, sod fountaint, g statues, and squares, with other accessories modern city. At presens it s in & huwfld'_t;: ing stste of traosition from the OM t0 b Neow, aod has the individaslity of neither i one nor the other. As in Aloxsndris, the strests are crowded with life, sud resound with -_cdvl*g and yet thero is parceptible no radical cbasid ™ tho ‘chiracter of the Moslem populstion. TheT aro still choarful, patient, serens, and indife ent, and thelr method of condusting affairs : A tains the wonted air of Oriental camposurs: